"Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history."

-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Emotional Quotes #Creating Quotes #Important Quotes

“I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.”
“September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.”
“I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.”
“You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.”
“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.”

Source : Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Ignite Me”, p.8, Harper Collins
“Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.”
“The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.”
“Donâ€™t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.”

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